These students are hoping that you will know what you are doing . . . Will you?

Do you Really

Need a TEFL

Certification?

It depends.

If you are an experienced teacher in your home country and have some real experience teaching - you can probably make the transition and learn the principles of TEFL on your own, practice them a bit and apply them.

But, if you have no teaching experience and no training as a teacher, you owe it to your students to get yourself some quality training.  Students, in most foreign countries, pay a lot of money to sit in your class.

Wouldn’t it just be fair to know what you are doing?

While teaching English overseas is not “brain surgery” or “rocket science”,  it does require some skill to do it well.  And as long as you are changing your life and heading overseas - why not do it right and feel good or even GREAT about the service you provide to your students?

The days of just showing up at a TEFL job and “chatting with the students for an hour” are long gone.  Language schools these days would like you to provide some real teaching in their classrooms.

Yes, there are some countries and some jobs that don’t require a TEFL certificate at all.  But it shouldn't be about just getting by with the minimum and, if you are lucky, doing a mediocre job. 

It’s about doing it right - and feeling good about it.